The Real Thing (Album)
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| Faith No More studio album | ||||
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Publication |
June 1989 |
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| Label (s) | PolyGram / London Slash | |||
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CD / LP |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
55 min 54 s |
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Studio (s) |
Studio D in Sausalito , California |
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The Real Thing is an album by the American band Faith No More , which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1990.
background
On this album, Mike Patton is the first singer, and the band landed their first big hit with the track Epic . There were five single releases as well as a live album .
The album was created in the winter of 1988/1989 and newcomer Patton worked on the vocals in just two weeks. The mixture was then still very new, because of hard metal - Sound to Soul a wide range is on offer. Groundbreaking here is the hit song Epic , in which distorted guitars meet rap vocals, which went down in pop music history as the first crossover hit (apart from Run-DMC with Walk This Way ) . In addition, the video on-excited animal rights activists look up because during the piano - Outros a fish could be seen that threatens to die in the dry.
The cover version War Pigs , an anti-war song, originally by Black Sabbath was written, Faith No More taught metal fans despite the genre atypical radio - Grooves one a sympathy bonus. However, the song is not included on the original LP from 1989, but it is on the CD from the same year.
reception
In Rock Hard magazine , Wolfgang Schäfer recommended The Real Thing to all those who “finally wanted to hear something new” and described the album as an “attack against frozen, clichéd and prejudiced music habits”. He awarded nine out of ten points. In 2007 the editors of The Real Thing magazine ranked 63rd in their list of the best 500 albums. Matthias Breusch described it as "the last, largest and most successful crossover experiment beyond the chili peppers , before the era of retro waves took over." The mix of melodies, rhythm and Mike Patton's vocals was "unique".
Track list
- From Out of Nowhere
- Epic
- Falling to pieces
- Surprise! You're dead!
- Zombie Eaters
- The real thing
- Underwater love
- The Morning After
- Woodpecker from Mars
- Was pigs
- Edge of the world
Single releases
- From Out of Nowhere
- Epic
- Falling to pieces
- Surprise! You're dead!
- Underwater love
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.rockhard.de: Review The Real Thing by Wolfgang Schäfer
- ↑ Rock Hard: Best of Rock and Metal , Königswinter 2007, pp. 198f.